Principal Engineer

About the job

As a Principal Engineer, you will lead the development and building of infrastructure that will underpin the future of the financial ecosystem. We are seeking a highly motivated, high-performing and vastly experienced software engineer who has successfully implemented compelling solutions to complex problems and can act as a technical figurehead across our whole India operation and represent engineering leadership. By combining deep experience with your intelligent problem-solving skills, you will make project-altering impacts across the whole engineering team on a daily basis. As a role model within engineering, you will coach and develop not just the engineers around you but also be known for enabling and supporting the senior leadership team. This is a critical hire for our company, and you will play a key role in shaping our future.

Who are we

Lean enables companies to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve their account information. Our products have garnered the trust of leading companies and enabled them to deliver powerful experiences when connected with a user’s bank account, allowing users to perform prudent financial planning, get better rates on loans, transfer money to friends, and more, without compromising on privacy or security.

Some of Lean’s clients include the likes of Binance, Etisalat Group, Careem, Sarwa, and many more, making it the region’s most valuable Open Banking platform. The company has now processed hundreds of millions of dollars, and its products are also connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Lean envisions a fully inclusive financial ecosystem that serves everyone, no matter where they bank or live in the MENAP region.

Having recently announced our Series B raise ($67.5m) led by General Catalyst, we’re building an Engineering hub in Pune to build upon our 100+ talented team of employees across Riyadh, Dubai, and London.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing our engineering efforts in the Pune office across all teams: technical specifications/code review, direct assistance with implementation of the most complex parts of the solution, involvement in all technical aspects such as backend and frontend, QA and CI/CD, infrastructure components, etc.

• Proactively communicating with product managers to contribute to the product vision and suggest technical solutions for product requirements across the Lean platform.

• Utilizing your expertise with our engineering stack, which includes Java microservices deployed on Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka (everything is pure cloud infrastructure).

• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and other technical issues to ensure optimal system performance.

• Ensuring the team ships technically robust, scalable, and extensible platforms.

• Being an opinionated change agent who drives improvements in culture, process and engineering excellence.

• Forming part of the engineering leadership community, being a trusted advisor to management and senior leadership across both technical and non-technical topics.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, microservice architecture, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and message-driven development are all skills that you should actively practice regularly.

• Proven track record of delivering complex projects across cross-functional teams in agile environments, mentoring engineers of all experience levels, and influencing technical strategy at an organizational level.

• Experience working on open-source standards and APIs.

• Experience in CI/CD and DevOps systems and processes.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills both with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

• Payments / Open Banking experience.

• Experience working in start-up environments.

NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

Why Join us?

Lean is the first regulated open banking and open finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.  Since 2019 we've been on a mission to become the pre-eminent A2A payments company in the Middle East - enabling our clients to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve account information. Our products have garnered the trust of some of the leading companies in the region, including the likes of Etisalat Group, Careem, Binance, Tabby, Tamara, Tawuniya, and more.

To date, Lean has processed billions of dollars, and our products have connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts across the region. We've recently announced our $67.5 million Series B funding round led by General Catalyst, following earlier investment from Sequoia Capital. This funding marks a major milestone for Lean and the financial ecosystem across the MENA region. At Lean, we’re committed to driving the next generation of financial innovation by making financial data and payments more accessible and transparent for businesses and consumers alike.

To that end, we're always on the lookout for talented, driven, and entrepreneurial candidates to join us in our mission of enabling the next generation of financial innovation. If you're motivated by solving hard problems and leaving a lasting legacy while you're at it, Lean's where you need to be.

Not only do we offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, and flexible office hours, but we also insist that every member of the team hold a meaningful equity stake in the business to ensure long-term alignment. We'd love you to join us for this journey!

Lean is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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